Iran Press/ Middle East: Born in 1954 in Basra, Martyred Abu Mehdi al-Muhandis with the name of Jamal Jafar A-Tamimi, was deputy chief of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization (al-Hashed al-Sha'abi).
He entered the Faculty of Technology in Baghdad in 1973 and graduated from it in 1977 and after completing his military service entered the Basra General Iron and Steel Institute and worked as a civil engineer and then as a postgraduate student, he graduated in political science.
He joined the Islamic Dawa Party in the early 1970s and learned the basics of jurisprudence at the office of Ayatollah Seyyed Mohsen al-Hakim in Basra.
Abu Muhandis was prosecuted by the court following his involvement in the events of Rajab (the seventh month of the Islamic calendar) in 1979 and the arrest of Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammed Baqer al-Sadr, who was forced to leave Iraq in 1980 after Saddam Hussein's rise to power in 1979. He left Iraq and entered Iran from Kuwait.
Abu Muhandis became commander of the Badr Corps and in 1985 he became a member of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.
Months before the fall of Saddam Hussein, he relinquished his responsibilities in the Badr Corps as well as in the Supreme Council and acted as an independent figure, while he did not renounce his relations with everyone.
Abu Muhandis was the founder of the Iraqi National Alliance faction and then the current National Alliance. Martyr Abu Mehdi Al- Muhandis played a prominent role in planning and executing the operation to destroy the ISIS terrorist group in Iraq.
The martyr was assassinated on Friday morning by US terrorist forces along with Martyred Lieutenant- General Qasem Soleimani at Baghdad Airport.
After the creation of al-Hashid al-Sha'abi, al-Muhandis was appointed as a Deputy Chairman, where he regularly participated in all fronts of battle.
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